Art Quote by Edmund de Waal

“producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an…

— Oscar Wilde

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the…

— A. A. Attanasio

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number…

— David Rockefeller

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge…

— Oscar Wilde

“I've mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades,…

— Cassandra Clare

“There are wonders to behold in our world that few will ever experience…Wonders capable of providing an artist inspiration for a lifetime; Wonders to…

— Alex G. Zarate

“The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know…

— Pico Iyer

“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes…

— Donna Tartt

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is…

— Katherine Paterson

“What do you find when you go inside? A rich world, streaming with thoughts, feelings, sensations, memories, hopes, wishes, dreams, and fears. No one…

— Deepak Chopra

“Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to become. That…

— Jaha Knight